Issues: non-security discretionary spending

President Barack Obama messed up one of his favorite talking points about his 2012 budget proposal at a small business forum in Cleveland.The president claimed that “I’ve designed a budget that freezes spending for five years and will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.” That’s not even close to being true.According to the fiscal year 2012 budget unveiled on Feb.